Art of Mentoring

The Art of Mentoring series is an ongoing series of books published by Basic Books, beginning in 2001 with Alan Dershowitz's "Letters to a Young Lawyer" and Christopher Hitchens' "Letters to a Young Contrarian". The books are all titled in the form "Letters to a Young ____", in the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke's book "Letters to a Young Poet". They are meant to be relatively short guides to various occupations or life paths for someone starting out in that field, from the point of view of an expert.

The series is the brainchild of John Donatich, who was the publisher at Basic Books from 1997 to 2003. [http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n15/story8.html]

The following books have been published in the series:

* "Letters to a Young Contrarian" by Christopher Hitchens (2001)
* "Letters to a Young Lawyer" by Alan Dershowitz (2001)
* "Letters to a Young Golfer" by Carl Vigeland and Bob Duval (2002)
* "Letters to a Young Conservative" by Dinesh D'Souza (2002)
* "Letters to a Young Activist" by Todd Gitlin (2003)
* "Letters to a Young Therapist" by Mary Pipher (2003)
* "Letters to a Young Chef" by Daniel Boulud (2003)
* "Letters to a Young Gymnast" by Nadia Comaneci (2003)
* "Letters to a Young Catholic" by George Weigel (2004)
* "Letters to a Young Actor: A Universal Guide to Performance" by Robert Brustein (2005)
* "Letters to a Young Mathematician" by Ian Stewart (2006)
* "Letters to a Young Journalist" by Samuel G. Freedman (2006)
* "Letters to a Young Evangelical" by Tony Campolo (2006)

Other books, like Hill Harper's "Letters to a Young Brother" (2006) and Jonathan Kozol's "Letters to a Young Teacher" (2007), though they share the structure and naming style of the series, and may have been inspired by it, are not part of the Art of Mentoring series.

External links

* [http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/collection.do?path=/basic/collections/letters.jsp Basic Books' "Art of Mentoring" page]